this project seeks to redefine, in anthropological terms, what constitutes design education and research. By specifying the originality that distinguishes them, namely the pedagogical and investigative approaches of (1) learning by doing and (2) collective imagination exercises of transformative futures, the research is complementarily orientated towards a reconsideration of design teaching and research through an anthropological analysis. By combining design and anthropology, it will inevitably also contribute to broadening the scope of studies in the emerging field called design anthropology, which brings together researchers from both areas in search of establishing symmetrical relationships between modes of knowledge production specific to the two areas of study in order to produce innovations for practice and research in the social sciences, such as anthropology, and in the applied social sciences, such as design.

O origami, arte japonesa de dobrar papéis, é amplamente conhecido como brincadeira infantil e como ferramenta educativa utilizada nas primeiras séries da escola. No entanto, o origami é hoje estudado e aplicado em diversas áreas, seja para inspirar a criação de luminárias, móveis e roupas ou para apoiar o desenvolvimento de airbags e stents para desobstrução de artérias, entre outras possibilidades.